FlowChartX control

Manage workflow, flowchart, network, organizational diagrams
FlowChartX is an ActiveX control that helps you create and present workflow, flowchart and process diagrams, database entity-relationship diagrams, organizational, hierarchy and relationship charts, network schemes, graphs and trees.

Its basic types of objects--boxes, tables, and arrows--can be grouped and attached one to another and combined in complex structures.FlowChartX control is a software that allows you to create and manage organizational diagrams.

The control provides more than 50 predefined box shapes, as well as user designated and custom-painted boxes.

Both images and text can be placed inside boxes. Customizable fonts and colors and multiple arrow styles let you customize the appearance of a chart.

Other layout features include an alignment grid; shadow effects; scrolling and zooming; locking; z-order; and pen styles.

Diagrams can be printed, exported as bitmap files, stored in OLE compound documents or in separate documents.

The control's programming model comprises more than 300 methods, properties, and events. Full source code is available for purchase too, giving you unlimited ability to customize the control.

Main features of FlowChartX control:

The FlowChartX control:

Redistribution is royalty free

Is digitally signed

Is written in C++ using ATL and WTL

Can be purchased with source code

User Interaction:

Several user interaction modes

Scrolling and zooming

Automatic scrolling while dragging objects with the mouse

Additional Overview control

Alignment to grid

Multiple selection

Tool-tips

Docking points can be defined for nodes

Multilevel Undo/Redo support

Clipboard support - Copy/Paste/Cut operations

Scroll tables rows

OLE Drag & Drop support

Programming:

Programmatic access to the diagram objects and selections

Numerous properties for customizing appearance and behavior

Numerous utility methods

Rich event set

Store and retrieve diagrams into/from:

Files on disk

OLE streams

ASCII strings

XML documents

Output:

To screen using the Windows GDI or GDI+

Printing and print preview

Integrate diagrams into VSVIEW reports

Create metafile or bitmap images

Import and Export:

Export images in bmp, jpeg, gif, tiff, png formats

Export metafiles

Import Visio 2003 VDX files

Export Visio 2003 VDX files

Diagram Elements:

Host ActiveX controls in diagram nodes

Container nodes that can hold other nodes

Plugins for shape libraries

More than 87 predefined node shapes

Tables with unlimited number of rows and columns

Arrows can comprise multiple segments

Arrow segments can be straight lines or curves

Interactive arrow segments addition and removal

Anchor points of an object where its incoming arrows would be placed

Behavior:

Tables can be scrolled

In place Box and Table text editing

Ability to set active object handles

Locking of chart objects

Objects grouping

Collapse/Expand of tree nodes in hierarchical structures like trees etc.

Path finding between objects

Ability to set selection handles behaviour

Read-only mode

Dynamic positioning of arrows relative to linked nodes

Automatic Layout:

Layered graph layout

Spring-Embedder graph layout

Radial layout

Directional tree layout

Route arrows to avoid crossing nodes

Appearance:

Different styles of the alignment grid

Different text alignment styles

Dynamic positioning of arrows relative to the attached boxes

Background image with plenty of alignment options - to an object's corner, tiled, stretched

Z-order

Nodes can display images and text

Customizable fonts and colors for every chart object

Different arrow styles

Rich choice of pen styles

Shadow offset of objects

User-designed box shapes

User-assigned mouse cursors

Custom-painted boxes

Shadow effect

Different styles for visual indication of a selected object

Diagram Structure:

Link nodes to nodes

Link tables rows to table rows

Link table rows to nodes

Link nodes to tables

Unconnected arrows

Hierarchical grouping:

Attaching objects (nodes/tables) to other objects

Attaching objects to arrow control points

Attaching objects to arrow segments


Limitations of FlowChartX control:

Only up to 32 objects can be created with it.

What's New in This Release:

Native 64-bit support;

Improved binary serialization;

XML serialization based on MSXML6;

Table cell tooltips;

Custom label position for Arrow objects;

Free Download ( Evaluation | 4.9 MB )